News in brief: Tutus on Tour, one-millionth Covid-19 test
9 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Royal New Zealand Ballet s Tutus on Tour is coming to town.
Northern Advocate
The Royal New Zealand Ballet is bringing its Tutus on Tour to Northland this month.
Tutus on Tour will perform at Whangārei s Capitaine Bougainville Theatre on March 13 and Kerikeri s Turner Centre on March 16.
Police appeal for help
Northland police have appealed to the public for help to solve an aggravated robbery in Glinks Gully, south of Dargaville, in September last year. A man was parked up having a snack in Glinks Gully, in Te Kōpuru, when two men in a 4WD approached him on the evening of September 25. They assaulted him and fled in his grey-coloured Toyota Prado after taking other items from him. Police later located the landcruiser upside down in the sea on a nearby beach. Members of the public with any information or sightings of the grey Toyota Prado between 6pm to 10pm are asked to contac
People in the Far North are being told to reduce water consumption immediately because of unprecedented demand.
People in the Far North are being urged to take shorter showers due to what Mayor John Carter said was an unprecedented demand for water.
Photo: 123rf
The district council says a water treatment plant in Paihia is now running 24 hours a day and storage reservoirs are not refilling to capacity.
Even so, storage reservoirs that normally refill overnight are now failing to reach capacity with one reservoir reaching just 62 percent full last night.
The mayor, John Carter, said demand for water at holiday hotspots in Bay of Islands had broken records as there has been a huge influx of visitors to the area.